Our Allée ADA Sconce brings the beauty of bent plywood to lighting with an ADA-compliant design that gently washes the wall with light. Available in birch and walnut. A favorite of architects, plywood is valued for its warmth, simplicity, and sustainability. Once considered an industrial material used in boats and aircraft, designers in the 1920s began bending plywood into sculptural forms. Finnish architect Alvar Aalto led this movement, pioneering bent-wood plywood furniture with soft lines and a fresh modernism aesthetic, an approach that has influenced designers for nearly a century including Ray and Charles Eames in the 1940s and 1950s. Namesake: An allée is a landscape design feature in which a walkway is lined with trees on both sides, forming a refined green tunnel or corridor. Originating in French garden design, allées celebrate symmetry and repetition, typically using a single tree species for uniformity.
